Free Websites For Use In The Classroom

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Below are several links that might be useful for your classroom. Some of them may be something that just you want to use or others you may have your students use for projects rather than just using PowerPoint again. :) These are free websites; however, some features may be limited unless you buy the upgrade.

Website Title	Website Link	Description
Kerpoof	http://www.kerpoof.com/	Digital storytelling tool, more elementary bases but all students may enjoy working with
Storybird	http://storybird.com/	Create your own online storybooks with words and images
Glogster	http://edu.glogster.com/	Make an-online multimedia posters - with text, photos, videos, graphics, sounds, drawings, data attachments and more. Make sure to use this link and go to the educational version to ensure that students are viewing appropriate gloggs.
Prezi	http://prezi.com/index/	A web-based presentation tool using a map layout and zooming to show contextual relationships. The idea behind Prezi is similar to Gloggster.
Wikispaces	http://www.wikispaces.com/	Wikis are simple web pages that groups, friends, and classes can edit together. Wikispaces is a fast, free, and easy way to create websites. This page was made in about 45 minutes and it can continually be added to.
Xtranormal	http://www.xtranormal.com/	If you can type,you can make movies with pre-made characters.
Quizlet	http://quizlet.com/	Enter vocabulary lists and let quizlet create a collection of games based on those terms. Great for review.
SpellingCity	http://www.spellingcity.com/	Excellent spelling practice tool, especially for elementary and middle school students.
Rubrics For Assessment	http://www.uwstout.edu/soe/profdev/rubrics.cfm	Lots of good ready-to-go rubrics for web 2.0 student projects, as well as general technology projects.
Delicious	www.delicious.com	Put all of your favorite websites in one place with easy access from any computer! Use a tagging system to easily organize and find your bookmarks. Also, you can create networks with others to share your bookmarks.

Here are just a few sites to get you started. We will keep updating and let if you know of anything that would be useful, let Laurel, Deb, Micki, or Doug know.